The A Level pass rate has risen for the 22nd consecutive year to over 95 per cent, today's Guardian predicts.

The results, which are out tomorrow, show that although the rate of improvement has slowed, there has been a rise of about one percentage point in the proportion of A to E grades.

The Independent reports that thousands of students who will discover tomorrow that they have failed their A Levels may still be able to find a place at a university.

Those who fail will be offered alternative routes into higher education being pushed through by ministers to achieve a government target of getting 50 per cent of all 18 to 30-year-olds going into higher education by the end of the decade.